Jill’s Reviews > Chasing Harlow > Status Update

What defining decision in my life got me to where I am today? That one defining decision, and the best decision I ever made, was being in that kitchen, chasing Harlow.”

He told me he wished I’d never moved here, but all I heard was: I wish you were never born. I wish it were you who had died. Jace was right. Pain is the price we pay for love. And darkness is the consequence of it.

Pain is the price we pay for love, he once told me. But Jace… he has so much love in his heart that I fear the people he offers that love to aren’t worthy of it. Most days, I’m certain that I was one of them.

Jace once told me that pain is the price we pay for love. That I’m nothing but a victim of loving the right person through the wrong times, all with the hope that there’s light at the end of the darkness.

“I’m saying that I love you, Harlow. And I want you with me wherever I go. Not just in the next stage of my life, but for the rest of my life… and all the lives after that.”

Swear, Harlow almost took my breath away the moment I saw her. Beautiful from afar, but up close, she’s extraordinary.

He takes my hand in his, linking our fingers and, without a word, he guides me back into the gym. And it feels different somehow, with Jace beside me, leading the way. Like a light in my darkness. A calm to my storm.

My dad used to call her his light… because she saved him from the darkness.”

Jace—he’s a wonder to watch. Every step, every move, every breath seems to come so naturally to him. So effortlessly.

Maybe he doesn’t know how to deal with his emotions, and that’s why he takes it out on me. It makes sense when you really, truly think about it. It’s probably why he chooses alcohol over everything else….But while his addiction is booze, mine has to be basketball. It’s the only way I can climb out of this hellhole. And Harlow… she can’t be anything more than a bump in the road.